James B. Pollack · 2017

Navigation by Imaginary Stars

120 BPMG# major1:40Ableton Live 9.532 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Navigation by Imaginary Stars" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, G# major, Ableton Live 9.5, 32 Ableton sample references. "Navigation by Imaginary Stars" is part of James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system rather than a literal one-to-one citation on this page. The connection is to the way Crowley's fiction handles world-building, layered time, memory, houses, thresholds, and hidden structure. Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, so these titles also mark a personal artistic lineage, not only a literary reference.

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Production Notes
  • Core DJ metadata: 120 BPM, G# major, 1:40.
  • Ableton source: project "march8jam1_astroneer", Ableton Live 9.5, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 12 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 320 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 38.
  • Ableton scan found 32 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, Strings.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy.
  • Plugin count: 0.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
120 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
120.0
Key
G# major
Duration
1:40
Ableton project
march8jam1_astroneer
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.5
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
32
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 38
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 32 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Navigation by Imaginary Stars" is part of James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system rather than a literal one-to-one citation on this page. The connection is to the way Crowley's fiction handles world-building, layered time, memory, houses, thresholds, and hidden structure. Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, so these titles also mark a personal artistic lineage, not only a literary reference.

Archive-level title systemJohn Crowley's fiction
Research source: Hachette: Little, BigResearch source: Yale English: Endless Things / AegyptResearch source: John Crowley author site: Ka
Search Context

Keywords: Navigation by Imaginary Stars, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, Bass, Strings, Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy, Ableton Live 9.5, 120 BPM.

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